Results of the week. "And we are here, you know, all indulge in buns ..."
Gee eight
Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with the head of the Canadian government Stephen Harper. After Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with the head of the Canadian government, the Ukrainian pseudo-premier announced that Ukraine was ready to take a seat in G8, if it was free.
Yatsenyuk said that he turned to the G-7 countries and called on them to build a new system of global security.
The place was “freed” after Russia was told that the G-7 (or rather, the G-6 is more correct) is not along the way. Arseny of Kiev and Washington, remembering that a holy place is never empty, concluded: do not be shy, we must offer ourselves.
“Seven”, to be honest, and before the proposals of Ukraine it was doubtful that it is Big. Get at least Italy. As it was said in one well-known film “boot with a boot”, and now with external debt under 130% of GDP and with record unemployment for all the last years ... And if you add an independent square here, then the Big Seven-Eight will turn into a Big circus, well, or parade of clowns. And the parade is one in which clowns are in the arena and in the spectator places.
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Nor fleetno discounts
After the annexation of the Crimea to Russia, the gas discount for Ukraine cannot be used for basing the Black Sea Fleet, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president. "There is no such thing as a gas discount for Ukraine for basing the Black Sea Fleet. Now it cannot be used either de jure or de facto," said Peskov in an interview with Vedomosti http: // www. vedomosti.ru/.
But then, in fact, many representatives of the current Ukrainian “authorities”, who had recently advocated the abolition of the Kharkiv agreements, are now asking, and why is Russia suddenly going to raise gas prices for Ukraine? So everything is ridiculously simple: the Kharkiv agreements, as the “official” Kiev wanted, as well as the “woman on the heels in a wheelchair” dissolved themselves - but with the dissolution of the Ukrainian jurisdiction of the Crimea peninsula into oblivion ... Kharkiv agreements discount gas associated with the presence in the Crimea Russian Black Sea Fleet. Crimea now, like 60 and 100, and 200 years ago, is Russian, and therefore there are no objective reasons for granting gas discounts to Ukrainian “authorities”.
Well, by and large: there are no authorities - there is no discount ... These people, entrenched (I think, not for long) in the Kiev offices, and having decided that they are the Ukrainian government, do not understand the simple gentlemen's rules - to get a discount, you need at least political " face face "to have the right. With the "face muzzle", forehead crowned with the brand "Made in Washington, DC", let discounts be negotiated with DC and DC.
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In the Crimea, sunny, in Kiev - "Rain" ...
The next move on the “making” of Ukraine united (this after the “official” Kiev itself did everything to reject the Crimea and the explosion of discontent in the eastern regions) had, as it turned out, to be connected with the ban on broadcasting major Russian TV channels. Oh, how to! Moreover, the wording of the providers of the package of TV services is remarkable: only Russian channels - RTR-Planeta, Channel One. The World Wide Web and NTV Mir - are subject to blocking by the decision of the Kiev Court, but other channels will come in their place - Rain. for example ... Like, no discrimination of the Russian-speaking population - they changed some channels in Russian to others ...
It cannot be said that without exception, all Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine received information exclusively from news releases of Channel 1, RTR-Planeta and NTV, but the impending replacement of these TV channels with Dozhd is, as they say, symptomatic for today's Ukraine. It is a pity for ordinary Ukrainians, on whose heads buckets of disinformation slops are being poured on their heads even without "Dozhd", and with "Dozhd" slops, moreover, clearly anti-Russian, will definitely increase. After all, the collective of the eternally rainy channel now clearly wants to settle scores with Russia, which gave him a hard kick under the soft spot for calling for "special interpretations" of episodes of the Great Patriotic War. And hyper-liberal revenge is such a thing ... Drooling, foam at the mouth, an American anthem on the ringtone, eyes red from live broadcasts of "swamp" and "Maidans" with an indispensable cut. If we add here the possible development of language by Ksenia Sobchak, who has already appeared in the Maidan Kiev in the national Ukrainian dress, then Ukraine will surely be flooded with the best ...
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After vodka they were drawn to the metal
The revolutionary necessity explains the capture by the militants of the Right Sector of the key objects of Zaporizhstal. Zaporizhstal is one of the largest metallurgical plants not only in Ukraine, but also in all of Europe. Those who are approaching the roadblock, the invaders threaten to shoot at the legs. The Right Sector believes that the plant’s revenues should be channeled into financing the so-called National Guard, read, to finance the Pravoseks themselves.
This is another seizure of a series of seizures by radicals of industrial, financial and commercial facilities of Ukraine. Before the Zaporozhye incident, the Nemiroff distillery, jewelry stores in Kiev, banking organizations in different regions of the country, shops, warehouses (including warehouses weapons).
Apparently, it was after gaining control over the distillery, or rather over its products, the ladder-pravoseki experienced real euphoria and decided to wipe at much more serious enterprises. If the stocks of products in the Vinnitsa town of Nemirov run out under pressure from the PS, then it will probably be necessary for pravosek to maintain a sense of euphoria to seize the paints and paints warehouses, as well as warehouses with “Pshik Maidan” cologne and Yulina Ponyushka ...
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To meet with Bandera
During the week during the special operation, as representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs called it, one of the most odious representatives of the Right Sector, Alexander Muzychko, aka Sashko Bily, was killed. He was shot in the heart, wounded in the legs.
As the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, loves to say, the shaitan was given a ticket to where no one had returned from.
Initially, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine stated that Muzychko was killed during a special operation. Then all of a sudden, representatives of the same Ministry of the Interior began to say that, they say, Muzychko was only injured, while he, falling down, hooked the trigger of a certain gun and “accidentally shot himself” ... Such strange statements about “unintentionally shot” should be tied, in all likelihood, with the fact that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov tried to soften "his guilt" before the "Right Sector". Like, we did not want to kill Sashka, he himself ...
But it was too late to open it, especially after the “Right Sector” did not accept explanations about the “accident”. As a result, at first, pravoseki, having buried Bilogo with the honors of the next “hero of the nation,” declared the hunt for Avakov, then Avakov was forced to declare the hunt for pravoseki. It remains only to cover the lid more tightly and wait for the “hunters” to eat each other in this transparent jar ...
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Misha makes homework
Last Saturday, the Georgian prosecutor's office announced that it plans to interrogate Saakashvili immediately on 10 criminal cases. Saakashvili will be asked questions about the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania in 2005. The prosecutor's office also intends to ask Saakashvili questions in connection with pardoning those convicted in the 2006 murder case of the United Bank of Georgia employee Sandro Girgvliani, plus in the case of conducting a special operation to curb the riot of the Georgian Armed Forces battalion in 2009.
This week, US State Department spokesman Marie Harf said the United States is expressing concern about the decision of the current Georgian authorities to interrogate Saakashvili.
But it’s not without reason that Mr. Saakashvili immediately left for the USA after the end of his second presidential term, having barely managed to pack his bags and bales. The “Father of the Nation” understood that if he lingered in Georgia for a while, he could go straight to the dock. Today, the ex-president, who, recall, once received power as a result of a coup d'etat in Georgia (under the strict guidance of the United States), works on a pedagogical field. It is in the United States that he works ... He teaches American students his vision of "diplomatic relations." Apparently, lectures “How to turn one country into three?” And “How to make the Olympics news number two?” Are very popular among overseas students.
Saakashvili responded to the invitation of the Georgian prosecutor’s office with a predictable refusal, although he stated yesterday that he was ready to give explanations, because he was innocent ... Apparently, he was explained on the other side of the Atlantic that he clearly lost his mind about his innocence, and therefore when asked in Tbilisi : “Will Misha come out?”, In Washington they answered: “Misha will not work, Misha does his homework. And don't call him anymore ”...
By the way, the joke about the possible withdrawal of Alaska to Russia appeared at the very moment when Saakashvili settled in the USA ...
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Maidology
Activists of the “euromaidan” have established a vegetable garden in the center of Kiev. It is reported that the demonstrators have already planted radishes, onions, lettuce, dill and parsley.
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This week, activists also intend to complete the construction of a pigsty. In the plans of the participants of the demonstration to get a few dozen chickens to get fresh eggs and at least two pigs.
Well done boys! They know what they are doing. But a vegetable garden and a pigsty in the center of Kiev are obviously not enough. Due to the fact that gas and electricity rates for the population and industrial enterprises of Ukraine will rise in the near future, in the center of the capital it is necessary to start planting trees on industrial scales right now - you see, in the course of 15-20, the availability of firewood will be close to ideal. In addition, on the Maidan, you can dig a big hole, fill it with water and put carp there, let them breed - you can fish without leaving the place of the protests. Yes, and the building is also time to retool. The Supreme Rada and the Cabinet - under the expanded Kiev zoo - let people come, throw coins into the box and look at the "contingent". Feeding with bread is allowed ...
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B.H. Obama summoned the spirit of the Cold War
На ресурсе USAwatchdog.com A new article by Comrade Greg Hunter was published, presenting a review of the statements of Jim Sinclair, a well-known gold expert (literally: Sinclair is an expert on investing in gold).
The world famous gold expert Jim Sinclair, writes G. Hunter, was worried about the crisis in Ukraine. Sinclair declared: “Welcome to the past - to the cold war ...” In his opinion, the cold is about to become hot.
Who started this war? It looks like President Obama, Sinclair believes. According to the gold expert, it was the US president who brought the spirit of the Cold War back to the world, changing diplomacy and outrageously threatening - instead of looking for solutions. Such behavior in the geopolitical arena, Mr. Obama, obviously, considers normal.
Sinclair mentions the referendum in the Crimea, where the "overwhelming majority" spoke "in favor of joining Russia." Still, officials in the West say that this is "illegal or illegitimate" (illegal or illegitimate). At the same time, to put it this way, the West denies that in reality the new Ukrainian government was created as a result of a coup d'etat. Saying so, someone leads us "to the brink of war," says the expert.
At the same time, he believes that the sanctions against Russia are about the same as a man’s shot in his own leg.
In the meantime, Russia can accept any currency for its oil and gas. She fights, Sinclair notes. She shows her teeth. And the monetary response of Russia will make energy in the world cheaper.
In addition, Russia can respond to at least in order to influence the US dollar exchange rate. Russia will prevail, the expert believes. It can even plunge the American economy into a crisis, a collapse. Actually, there is no such question at all, the analyst believes. “Putin does not need a nuclear bomb,” he notes. “He has a nuclear economic bomb that he can drop at any time.”
Thus, a Western expert of not the latest magnitude warned Washington hawks: do not meddle with the Russian bear. He doesn’t even need a nuclear weapon to show America a grudge. In addition, the USA themselves have done a lot to make the dollar vulnerable ...
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Cuban sword?
The geopolitical episodes of recent days have led CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann to the idea that the idea of a “sword in the heart of America” (this sword resembles the shape of the building of the Russian embassy in Havana) in Russia is not forgotten. “Although the Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, the old habits, apparently, can still be alive,” Oppmann said on the air. CNN correspondent noted that the ships of the Russian Navy often visited Cuba. At the same time, Havana denies that it is negotiating with Moscow to provide territory for a military base. According to the journalist, the renewed interest of Russians in the Island of Freedom may indicate that the Kremlin is trying to give an answer to the White House.
It is unlikely that the minister would tell the American television correspondent about Russian visits, especially about military negotiations and cooperation with Moscow. Americans only by naivety can count on an open attitude to themselves. The authority of the United States on the world stage, a few years ago, which seemed unshakable to many, plummeted. The White House talks a lot about “illegitimacy” (for example, a referendum in the Crimea), but in fact there is nothing on the planet less legitimate than the White House itself. They do not trust him, the Americans themselves disagree with his decisions. Similarly, the Americans do not trust their Congress. Ratings of the latter, like the ratings of President Obama, are extremely low. In addition, the world community has a negative attitude towards the United States due to E. Snowden's revelations. Therefore, the Cuban foreign minister, who has long-standing claims to Washington about Guantanamo, will not tell the American journalist what he spoke with the Russians.
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NATO Secretary General missed the Russians
Anders Fogh Rasmussen made a number of very serious statements.
In Brussels, he condemned the actions of Vladimir Putin, aimed at the inclusion of the Crimea in the Russian Federation. “I condemn the announcement by President Putin of the inclusion of Crimea into the Russian Federation,” the Secretary General said. On behalf of NATO, they made a statement that the alliance does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
In his next public statement, the NATO secretary general said that Russia is behaving not at all as a partner of the North Atlantic Alliance: "Russia behaves as if it is not a partner, but an opponent of NATO."
Finally, Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced in Brussels that the Ukrainian events could accelerate the rapprochement of the candidate countries with NATO. “I see it in a strategic perspective,” he noted. When? .. It turns out that this perspective, in the words of one Russian publicist, “is near at door”.
Already at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales, everything will become clear. The Secretary General said: “We need to move forward and reflect the progress that has been made, at least in some of the candidate countries.” At the end of June, the NATO foreign ministers will consider issues of compliance of Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia with the conditions for joining the alliance.
Rasmussen did not even mention about the well-known “territorial dispute” of Georgia with Russia, because of which NATO by no means can accept this sunny land of wine-makers into their cohesive ranks that they do not accept unresolved territorial problems. Because of the Crimea, everything somehow changed quickly. History literally written every day in front of the whole world. By the way, this was noted by the NATO Secretary General.
According to him, which he said no longer in Brussels, but at the Brookings Institute (USA), events in Ukraine and the reunification of Crimea with Russia changed the world. What kind of changes are we talking about? It turns out that henceforth relations between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance can no longer be “business, as usual.” But every cloud has a silver lining: the Crimean crisis rallied the great ones: the USA and Europe.
We read between the lines: the West re-emerged a common enemy, as in the days of the Cold War. This enemy is the same Russian. The same Russians, whom Western commentators stubbornly continue to call "communists."
Moscow, according to Rasmussen, is engaged in “revisionism” and applies a policy of force, ignoring the legal international mechanisms that have been developed for decades. With sadness in his voice, the Secretary General said: “We thought that this behavior is history. It turns out not yet. "
Europe and the United States — that is, those who, apparently, uphold good and justice in the world through NATO institutions preaching peaceful bombardments and buffer zones (well, yes, “good with fists”) - now must rally. Consolidation of the West (obviously, in the face of the aggressor) NATO Secretary General considers the only way to ensure security.
Thus, A.F. Rasmussen made a startling historical discovery. It turns out that NATO missed some fact, namely that the unipolar world ceased to exist. Western political analysts and analysts have long been writing about this one article after another, but apparently Rasmussen does not read newspapers and has no time for news on the Internet. China is strong enough, India is growing, and Russia is deserving recognition as an active and influential foreign player. Rumor has it that by 2020, the United States will not dominate the planet at all.
The economic crisis, the constant criticism of President Obama by his own people, public mistrust of the authorities in Britain, France, Spain, Italy and other so-called “developed” countries, frequent vetoes in the UN Security Council imposed by Comrade Churkin, the recent slobber of Samantha Power’s hysteria, a Syrian issue with chemical weapons, the Crimean referendum and the overt fascization of Kiev, which Moscow doesn’t approve of and for which the dirty hands of Washington and Brussels are visible, as well as Victoria Nuland’s phone call to the EU - all this speaks not only of force uu Russian influence in geopolitics, but also that the consolidation of the West is (at least partly) a large and fragile myth. The West simply has no money for this consolidation: after all, the NATO budget is bursting at the seams!
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Obama congratulated the liberators
“The United States and NATO do not seek to enter into conflict with Russia. We have been at NATO for 60 for years in helping people to become free, ”said Obama, speaking at the Belgian Palace of Fine Arts BOZAR.
He said something else: “NATO allies are never alone. Today, NATO planes are patrolling the skies over the Baltic, we have strengthened our presence in Poland, and we are ready to do more. "
“None of us knows what awaits the people of Ukraine in the near future. We believe in democracy, free elections, civil society, information without censorship, we believe in an open economy. We believe in human dignity and that all people are created equal, ”the American president said.
Orwell has long written satirically about this very equality: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Bombs for Yugoslavia, protracted wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, accelerated democratization of Libya, fussing around Syria and Iran and the Arab Spring in general, creating EuroPRO, condemning a referendum in Crimea recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed “Republic of Kosovo”, two Sudans and approving the Belovezhskaya agreement 1991 of the year - all of these are examples of the American-NATO faith in democracy and an open economy.
In human dignity, Mr. Obama, do not need to believe. You need to have it.
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One hundred states against Russia
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing the referendum in Crimea as illegal. 100 states voted for the resolution, 11 voted against, 58 abstained.
The position of the Russian Federation on the “Resolution on Ukraine” was supported by: Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
The General Assembly recognized the referendum held by residents of the Crimea as null and void and considered that it could not serve as a basis for changing the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The General Assembly called on the international community not to recognize changes in the status of Crimea and Sevastopol and to refrain from any actions that could be interpreted as recognition of changes in this status.
The voting results prove the groundlessness of statements about the international isolation of Russia, said Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin. “Very many countries complained that they are under tremendous pressure from the Western powers to vote in support of this resolution,” he said.
“The result is quite good for us, we won a moral and political victory. Of course, there can be no talk of isolating Russia in this situation, ”the Permanent Representative noted.
It is very pleasant that Venezuela voted against the will of the majority: after all, the United States buys 15% oil from this country. The position, for example, of Sudan, is clear: this is a small revenge on America and the UN for splitting the country.
Political pressure in the UN has always been. In fact, this organization has long become something of a collection of dictators who call themselves carriers of democracy and guarantors of peace and freedom. Only the right of veto, which, fortunately, is available in the UN Security Council with Russia, sometimes makes it possible to save some part of the planet from annoying democratizers, who have the Nazi stamp of NATO on their forehead.
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Pokemon Recognition
At the summit on nuclear security in the Netherlands B.H. Obama had to voice one truth, namely the fact that Russia would not give up the historical territory of Crimea.
Obama's confession sounded for the first time in several weeks, during which the entire West condemned Russia for its position on the Crimea.
Obama also confirmed the previously expressed intention not to get involved in a conflict with Russia over Ukraine.
Bloggers make fun of the US president and compare it with a Pokemon named Slopook.
Another fact is remarkable, which also should not slip away from the attention of people who know how to joke and think. Probably, Obama finally reached some article from numerous recent American publications about the imminent start of the Third World War, which he, the Nobel peacemaker B.H. Obama, will unleash by his absurd and aggressive behavior. That is why the US president spoke not at some place in Congress, but at a nuclear security summit ...
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Americans want to read Putin's mind
The other day, the Wall Street Journal talked about how the American special forces miscalculated the “invasion” of the Russians in Crimea. In a material dated 24 in March, journalists Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes and Siobhan Gorman share with the reading public their thoughts on how the Kremlin managed to fool not only intelligence analysts, but also military satellites that monitored the Crimea. The authors conclude that the Russians probably learned to circumvent the western wiretapping.
The US military satellites spied on the accumulating Russian troops within the reach of the Crimea last month, write correspondents. But intelligence analysts were surprised by the events that followed: after all, they had not intercepted any messages that Russian leaders and military would exchange on the threshold of an “invasion”. As a result, representatives of the American intelligence came to a disappointing conclusion: Russian specialists may have advanced in technology and hid from the American wiretapping.
Now, to mend the information breach, special services and the US military are rushing to expand satellite coverage. Their goal is to intercept messages throughout the territory of Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic countries. US officials want to intercept everything that concerns the "intentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin." They want to know about Putin’s decisions even before he takes action.
The Obama administration is "very nervous," said an unnamed person close to the subject of discussion.
Curiously, some senior intelligence officials told Barack Obama three days before the “Crimean operation” that Russia could take the peninsula so quickly that Washington would know about it only when everything was behind.
The article reports some more details.
It turns out that expanding surveillance by increasing satellite coverage of Russia and Ukraine to the West is hampered by limited resources. The military cannot divert too many resources from Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran and other hot spots.
Assumptions about even more powerful programs of wiretapping and observation, about even more spy satellites are no more than an extensive way of doing the same work, which the US special agencies obviously do not cope with. Or maybe this excuse for a purely American "cut" the federal budget? .. In this case, the NSA can be advised to develop a special program for reading V.V. Putin's thoughts at a distance.
Well, in the meantime, congressmen and corporations are once again sawing billions, Russians may find themselves in Alaska. “Last minute”, yes, Mr. Obama?
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Back to Russia!
Almost a century and a half ago, Russia sold Alaska to the American government (options: I rented out, granted to management, gave away in vain, because I did not receive the promised money). The nineteenth-century US senators, who were vehemently criticizing the deal, called the future new state a block of ice, an icebox, a piece of frozen land, etc. But then 37 senators were in favor, and only two voted against. Today, the debate around Alaska has resumed with a new force. This was due to two events in the information sphere: March 21, a petition “Alaska back to Russia” appeared on the US e-government website, which was signed by an SV from Anchorage and collected more than thirty thousand signatures; 23 in March, Russia's permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, gave the TV interview for Andy Marr's Show on BBC One, where the moderator quoted a well-known US Senator John McCain about the need to “follow Moldova” after the Crimean crisis, and Comrade Chizhov replied: “Tell McCain - let him follow Alaska. ”
The author of the mentioned petition substantiates his claim for the return of Alaska to Russia by the fact that Russian Siberian tribes crossed the isthmus (now the Bering Strait) even 16-10 thousands of years ago, and later began to settle on the Arctic coast. As for the Aleuts, they inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago. 21 August 1732 of the year the crew members of the ship “St. Gabriel "under the leadership of M. S. Gvozdev. The author of the petition calls on US citizens to vote for the separation of Alaska from the United States and its accession to Russia.
March 23, participating in the show "Andy Marr" on "BBC One", Russia's permanent representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov spoke about Alaska, which frightened the TV presenter, who had slightly changed in his face.
On the air we are talking about the reunification of the Crimea with Russia. Andy Marr quoted John McCain. He recently said that he needed to “follow Moldavia”, because the same thing could happen to her as to Ukraine (that is, the West should not miss Transnistria as he missed the Crimea).
Comrade Chizhov gave a brilliant answer to this: “Tell McCain - let him follow Alaska.” These words shocked the British presenter.
After these two events - the appearance of the petition and the response of Chizhov - journalists, scholars, conspiracyologists, members of online forums and just amateurs of chatting on the Internet enlivened. A whole wave of discussions has come up that was resolved by Alexander II in 1867.
However, according to the media, the petition “Alaska back to Russia” to the US e-government website was placed not by an American, but by a Russian, Sergei Voropayev, a resident of the glorious city of Volgograd.
Russia's permanent representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, just joked. But we know: in every joke there is a grain of truth ...
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Revelations Mr. McFaul
23 March under the heading "Opinion" newspaper "New York Times" An article by M. McFaul “Opposition of Putin's Russia” was published. The Crimean decision of V. Putin, the ex-ambassador in it, called the decision "to annex the Crimea." This very decision, Mr. McFaul is sure, ended the era that came after the end of the Cold War (under Gorbachev and Reagan). Those former times are known for the fact that between Russia and the West there were disputes and “zigzags” in cooperation, but the main vector was clear: Russia was gradually integrated into the international order. But this is no more, the author believes.
The democratic community must recognize that Putin is a real autocrat autocrat, and begin an intellectual and regulatory struggle against his system.
But what to do with Ukraine? In this matter, Mr. McFaul advises to take "certain political steps." According to him, Ukraine should succeed as a democratic country with a market economy. At the same time, McFaul recommends that Moldova and Georgia be “urgently strengthened”. Ways to strengthen the following: a wider placement of military equipment there, more training, more integration of forces. In parallel, new efforts should be made to reduce the dependence of NATO countries on Russian energy resources.
Returning to Russia, McFaul says that "the current regime must be isolated." There is no membership of Russia in G8, there is no negotiation on Euro missile defense. Instead of all this, sanctions, including against relevant individuals and organizations (propagandists, state-owned enterprises, the Kremlin and associated bankers). But citizens and companies not affiliated with the government should, on the contrary, be supported. Including should be supported and those who seek to take out capital from Russia or emigrate, writes Mr. McFaul.
Putin’s nationalism, according to the ex-ambassador, is fueled mainly by oil and neo-Soviet anti-Americanism. However, Putin’s Russia has no real allies, McFaul says. And this state of affairs, in his opinion, should be preserved. In what way? And this is how: China should be kept at a distance from revisionist Russia, and at the same time contribute to the formation of independent states in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Amazing these March theses McFaul, add on my own. After all, the current American democracy is no good for samples, and Congress does not find a common language with the president. And yet, on behalf of the United States, McFaul acts as a kind of ecumenical teacher who has the right (maybe even “international”) not only to reveal the truth and falsehood in Russians, but also to give strategic advice to his skinny government, according to which "In Russia and some neighboring states, democracy.
And this McFaul, who offered his government an obvious strategy for the destruction of Russia, is still surprised at “anti-Americanism”! This kind Stanford uncle advises to fill Moldova and Georgia with military equipment and send instructors there. And in parallel to deal with Central Asia and promote the formation of independent states in the Caucasus!
Apparently, Mr. McFaul was angry with Russia after he worked as an ambassador in Moscow. Everything was taken into account in his scenario: the “fifth column”, the financial component, the withdrawal of Russian capital abroad, and well-known elements of the Cold War such as Russia's isolation and the arms race.
Things are easy: the US Congress needs to get on with Obama (which will not happen), and the United States to earn a new “moral authority” in the world (which cannot happen in the near future). Until then, everything will go according to the McFaul formula: "The United States is retreating on the world stage, and Russia is moving ahead."
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Afghan script for Ukraine
The US leadership is considering the possibility of increasing purchases of Ukrainian cannabis as part of the measures of financial support for the Ukrainian economy, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday.
“We are currently studying the possibility of using industrial hemp seeds grown in Ukraine and in the United States,” he explained.
ITAR-TASS specifies that in the Ukrainian hemp there are no psychoactive substances causing narcotic intoxication. Raw materials are used for the production of oils, paints and plastics.
No psychoactive substances, you say? .. So once and the Americans said that with them Afghanistan would start to engage in agriculture. And now (according to the UN, by the way), opium raw materials from poppy are produced there almost 90% in the world. That is, Afghanistan has become an officially recognized opium monopolist. In recent years, hemp yields have also increased. In the language of marketers, this is called associated diversification of production.
However, as is known, Americans may soon leave Afghanistan. Therefore, they will need new "gardens". Ukraine, with its chernozems and a wonderful climate, is a expanse for cannabis production. Moreover, in the States is in full swing the legalization of marijuana. With the new democrats in Kiev, it will be possible to “stir up” the legal farming business.
No, these talk about plastic will not lead us!
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* "And we are here, you know, we all play around with buns ..." - a phrase from the cartoon "Carlson who lives on the roof"
Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with the head of the Canadian government Stephen Harper. After Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with the head of the Canadian government, the Ukrainian pseudo-premier announced that Ukraine was ready to take a seat in G8, if it was free.
Yatsenyuk said that he turned to the G-7 countries and called on them to build a new system of global security.
The place was “freed” after Russia was told that the G-7 (or rather, the G-6 is more correct) is not along the way. Arseny of Kiev and Washington, remembering that a holy place is never empty, concluded: do not be shy, we must offer ourselves.
“Seven”, to be honest, and before the proposals of Ukraine it was doubtful that it is Big. Get at least Italy. As it was said in one well-known film “boot with a boot”, and now with external debt under 130% of GDP and with record unemployment for all the last years ... And if you add an independent square here, then the Big Seven-Eight will turn into a Big circus, well, or parade of clowns. And the parade is one in which clowns are in the arena and in the spectator places.
Comments from our readers:
Climber
Asking what they smoke, it makes no sense. I want to ask why they are not being treated?
VladimirZ
What's this? New joke? Ukraine is a member of the G8 G8 ...
Diff
G8 considered that Putin too often left them in the cold, this is the new candidate.
Nor fleetno discounts
After the annexation of the Crimea to Russia, the gas discount for Ukraine cannot be used for basing the Black Sea Fleet, said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president. "There is no such thing as a gas discount for Ukraine for basing the Black Sea Fleet. Now it cannot be used either de jure or de facto," said Peskov in an interview with Vedomosti http: // www. vedomosti.ru/.
But then, in fact, many representatives of the current Ukrainian “authorities”, who had recently advocated the abolition of the Kharkiv agreements, are now asking, and why is Russia suddenly going to raise gas prices for Ukraine? So everything is ridiculously simple: the Kharkiv agreements, as the “official” Kiev wanted, as well as the “woman on the heels in a wheelchair” dissolved themselves - but with the dissolution of the Ukrainian jurisdiction of the Crimea peninsula into oblivion ... Kharkiv agreements discount gas associated with the presence in the Crimea Russian Black Sea Fleet. Crimea now, like 60 and 100, and 200 years ago, is Russian, and therefore there are no objective reasons for granting gas discounts to Ukrainian “authorities”.
Well, by and large: there are no authorities - there is no discount ... These people, entrenched (I think, not for long) in the Kiev offices, and having decided that they are the Ukrainian government, do not understand the simple gentlemen's rules - to get a discount, you need at least political " face face "to have the right. With the "face muzzle", forehead crowned with the brand "Made in Washington, DC", let discounts be negotiated with DC and DC.
Comments from our readers:
VeteranS
It is a pity for ordinary consumers, but the sooner they throw this Kiev gangs from their land, and our people will live in peace and friendship!
Serega.fedotov
Wood in Ukraine will rise in price
Lelikas
No legs - no jump rope ...
Orik
And who does not jump that mo. The circle is closed.
In the Crimea, sunny, in Kiev - "Rain" ...
The next move on the “making” of Ukraine united (this after the “official” Kiev itself did everything to reject the Crimea and the explosion of discontent in the eastern regions) had, as it turned out, to be connected with the ban on broadcasting major Russian TV channels. Oh, how to! Moreover, the wording of the providers of the package of TV services is remarkable: only Russian channels - RTR-Planeta, Channel One. The World Wide Web and NTV Mir - are subject to blocking by the decision of the Kiev Court, but other channels will come in their place - Rain. for example ... Like, no discrimination of the Russian-speaking population - they changed some channels in Russian to others ...
It cannot be said that without exception, all Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine received information exclusively from news releases of Channel 1, RTR-Planeta and NTV, but the impending replacement of these TV channels with Dozhd is, as they say, symptomatic for today's Ukraine. It is a pity for ordinary Ukrainians, on whose heads buckets of disinformation slops are being poured on their heads even without "Dozhd", and with "Dozhd" slops, moreover, clearly anti-Russian, will definitely increase. After all, the collective of the eternally rainy channel now clearly wants to settle scores with Russia, which gave him a hard kick under the soft spot for calling for "special interpretations" of episodes of the Great Patriotic War. And hyper-liberal revenge is such a thing ... Drooling, foam at the mouth, an American anthem on the ringtone, eyes red from live broadcasts of "swamp" and "Maidans" with an indispensable cut. If we add here the possible development of language by Ksenia Sobchak, who has already appeared in the Maidan Kiev in the national Ukrainian dress, then Ukraine will surely be flooded with the best ...
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Gandalf
It's time to cover the "Rain" "Hail."
Bobxnumx
Selected the most "decent" channel. "Good" is drawn to the "good."
Dezinto
"Rain" he because, as from a bucket ... Only not water.
After vodka they were drawn to the metal
The revolutionary necessity explains the capture by the militants of the Right Sector of the key objects of Zaporizhstal. Zaporizhstal is one of the largest metallurgical plants not only in Ukraine, but also in all of Europe. Those who are approaching the roadblock, the invaders threaten to shoot at the legs. The Right Sector believes that the plant’s revenues should be channeled into financing the so-called National Guard, read, to finance the Pravoseks themselves.
This is another seizure of a series of seizures by radicals of industrial, financial and commercial facilities of Ukraine. Before the Zaporozhye incident, the Nemiroff distillery, jewelry stores in Kiev, banking organizations in different regions of the country, shops, warehouses (including warehouses weapons).
Apparently, it was after gaining control over the distillery, or rather over its products, the ladder-pravoseki experienced real euphoria and decided to wipe at much more serious enterprises. If the stocks of products in the Vinnitsa town of Nemirov run out under pressure from the PS, then it will probably be necessary for pravosek to maintain a sense of euphoria to seize the paints and paints warehouses, as well as warehouses with “Pshik Maidan” cologne and Yulina Ponyushka ...
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Lord of the Sith
Polite people will free!
Akhtuba73
Everything goes as it should go ... Only the Maidanists themselves will be able to make them hate everyone else. No propaganda is possible. A little patience, comrades.
Turik
Here you have a life on the precepts of Makhno
To meet with Bandera
During the week during the special operation, as representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs called it, one of the most odious representatives of the Right Sector, Alexander Muzychko, aka Sashko Bily, was killed. He was shot in the heart, wounded in the legs.
As the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, loves to say, the shaitan was given a ticket to where no one had returned from.
Initially, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine stated that Muzychko was killed during a special operation. Then all of a sudden, representatives of the same Ministry of the Interior began to say that, they say, Muzychko was only injured, while he, falling down, hooked the trigger of a certain gun and “accidentally shot himself” ... Such strange statements about “unintentionally shot” should be tied, in all likelihood, with the fact that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov tried to soften "his guilt" before the "Right Sector". Like, we did not want to kill Sashka, he himself ...
But it was too late to open it, especially after the “Right Sector” did not accept explanations about the “accident”. As a result, at first, pravoseki, having buried Bilogo with the honors of the next “hero of the nation,” declared the hunt for Avakov, then Avakov was forced to declare the hunt for pravoseki. It remains only to cover the lid more tightly and wait for the “hunters” to eat each other in this transparent jar ...
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Ataman
A civil war in Ukraine is planned not between Kiev and the South-East, but between Kiev gauleiters and Lviv banderlog. They themselves will wet each other.
Alex_83
First go!
Tersky
Yarosh, get ready ... Next you.
Siberian 19
The revolution began to devour their heroes! There is still a whole list of those who spoke to the tower!
Misha makes homework
Last Saturday, the Georgian prosecutor's office announced that it plans to interrogate Saakashvili immediately on 10 criminal cases. Saakashvili will be asked questions about the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania in 2005. The prosecutor's office also intends to ask Saakashvili questions in connection with pardoning those convicted in the 2006 murder case of the United Bank of Georgia employee Sandro Girgvliani, plus in the case of conducting a special operation to curb the riot of the Georgian Armed Forces battalion in 2009.
This week, US State Department spokesman Marie Harf said the United States is expressing concern about the decision of the current Georgian authorities to interrogate Saakashvili.
But it’s not without reason that Mr. Saakashvili immediately left for the USA after the end of his second presidential term, having barely managed to pack his bags and bales. The “Father of the Nation” understood that if he lingered in Georgia for a while, he could go straight to the dock. Today, the ex-president, who, recall, once received power as a result of a coup d'etat in Georgia (under the strict guidance of the United States), works on a pedagogical field. It is in the United States that he works ... He teaches American students his vision of "diplomatic relations." Apparently, lectures “How to turn one country into three?” And “How to make the Olympics news number two?” Are very popular among overseas students.
Saakashvili responded to the invitation of the Georgian prosecutor’s office with a predictable refusal, although he stated yesterday that he was ready to give explanations, because he was innocent ... Apparently, he was explained on the other side of the Atlantic that he clearly lost his mind about his innocence, and therefore when asked in Tbilisi : “Will Misha come out?”, In Washington they answered: “Misha will not work, Misha does his homework. And don't call him anymore ”...
By the way, the joke about the possible withdrawal of Alaska to Russia appeared at the very moment when Saakashvili settled in the USA ...
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Serega.fedotov
I don’t have to worry about the State Department: a tie during the interrogation can tell something like that ...
Svetlomor
They are afraid of the other. Where it appears, part of the territory to Russia is moving away. And what remains of that Georgia ...
Avg
Who would doubt that. Diplomatic womb of the State Department - famous jurists.
Maidology
Activists of the “euromaidan” have established a vegetable garden in the center of Kiev. It is reported that the demonstrators have already planted radishes, onions, lettuce, dill and parsley.
http://www.ridus.ru
This week, activists also intend to complete the construction of a pigsty. In the plans of the participants of the demonstration to get a few dozen chickens to get fresh eggs and at least two pigs.
Well done boys! They know what they are doing. But a vegetable garden and a pigsty in the center of Kiev are obviously not enough. Due to the fact that gas and electricity rates for the population and industrial enterprises of Ukraine will rise in the near future, in the center of the capital it is necessary to start planting trees on industrial scales right now - you see, in the course of 15-20, the availability of firewood will be close to ideal. In addition, on the Maidan, you can dig a big hole, fill it with water and put carp there, let them breed - you can fish without leaving the place of the protests. Yes, and the building is also time to retool. The Supreme Rada and the Cabinet - under the expanded Kiev zoo - let people come, throw coins into the box and look at the "contingent". Feeding with bread is allowed ...
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Avanhard
"This week, activists also intend to complete the construction of the pigsty." So let them look around - why the hell build it, it already exists, the animals already live in it!
LK17619
Ge..ropa ceased to distribute cookies ???
Ambiorix
For what raguli are taken - at the exit is a pigsty.
B.H. Obama summoned the spirit of the Cold War
На ресурсе USAwatchdog.com A new article by Comrade Greg Hunter was published, presenting a review of the statements of Jim Sinclair, a well-known gold expert (literally: Sinclair is an expert on investing in gold).
The world famous gold expert Jim Sinclair, writes G. Hunter, was worried about the crisis in Ukraine. Sinclair declared: “Welcome to the past - to the cold war ...” In his opinion, the cold is about to become hot.
Who started this war? It looks like President Obama, Sinclair believes. According to the gold expert, it was the US president who brought the spirit of the Cold War back to the world, changing diplomacy and outrageously threatening - instead of looking for solutions. Such behavior in the geopolitical arena, Mr. Obama, obviously, considers normal.
Sinclair mentions the referendum in the Crimea, where the "overwhelming majority" spoke "in favor of joining Russia." Still, officials in the West say that this is "illegal or illegitimate" (illegal or illegitimate). At the same time, to put it this way, the West denies that in reality the new Ukrainian government was created as a result of a coup d'etat. Saying so, someone leads us "to the brink of war," says the expert.
At the same time, he believes that the sanctions against Russia are about the same as a man’s shot in his own leg.
In the meantime, Russia can accept any currency for its oil and gas. She fights, Sinclair notes. She shows her teeth. And the monetary response of Russia will make energy in the world cheaper.
In addition, Russia can respond to at least in order to influence the US dollar exchange rate. Russia will prevail, the expert believes. It can even plunge the American economy into a crisis, a collapse. Actually, there is no such question at all, the analyst believes. “Putin does not need a nuclear bomb,” he notes. “He has a nuclear economic bomb that he can drop at any time.”
Thus, a Western expert of not the latest magnitude warned Washington hawks: do not meddle with the Russian bear. He doesn’t even need a nuclear weapon to show America a grudge. In addition, the USA themselves have done a lot to make the dollar vulnerable ...
Comments from our readers:
Altona
Maybe Comrade Sinclair exaggerated a bit, but it's time to create your own analogue of payment systems, and to have a multi-vector financial policy, rather than ramming the dollar, euro and US government bonds into the Central Bank ...
Tjumenec72
There is already our payment system PRO100. And if they block the "Visa" and "Mastercard", then they will push our banks into it.
Geisenberg
Comrade Sinclair exaggerated nothing. Collaborate with our Chinese and throw them American candy wrappers, in some places the American spring begins.
Cuban sword?
The geopolitical episodes of recent days have led CNN correspondent Patrick Oppmann to the idea that the idea of a “sword in the heart of America” (this sword resembles the shape of the building of the Russian embassy in Havana) in Russia is not forgotten. “Although the Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, the old habits, apparently, can still be alive,” Oppmann said on the air. CNN correspondent noted that the ships of the Russian Navy often visited Cuba. At the same time, Havana denies that it is negotiating with Moscow to provide territory for a military base. According to the journalist, the renewed interest of Russians in the Island of Freedom may indicate that the Kremlin is trying to give an answer to the White House.
It is unlikely that the minister would tell the American television correspondent about Russian visits, especially about military negotiations and cooperation with Moscow. Americans only by naivety can count on an open attitude to themselves. The authority of the United States on the world stage, a few years ago, which seemed unshakable to many, plummeted. The White House talks a lot about “illegitimacy” (for example, a referendum in the Crimea), but in fact there is nothing on the planet less legitimate than the White House itself. They do not trust him, the Americans themselves disagree with his decisions. Similarly, the Americans do not trust their Congress. Ratings of the latter, like the ratings of President Obama, are extremely low. In addition, the world community has a negative attitude towards the United States due to E. Snowden's revelations. Therefore, the Cuban foreign minister, who has long-standing claims to Washington about Guantanamo, will not tell the American journalist what he spoke with the Russians.
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W1950
The United States, by virtue of its self-confidence after the collapse of the USSR and the infallibility of themselves, are digging a grave. Apparently, the brains are completely rusty.
apollo
In 91, when the Union was falling apart, the Cubans called us traitors, it was a shame ... We left them alone then with America, but in time China came there, Venezuela helped. I just did not understand why it was necessary to close the base in Lourdes, all America was listened ... Our military ships regularly appeared in the port of Havana, there were a large number of dual-purpose specialists, if you want now, you can return it all, I'm sure the Cubans will accept us back with joy ...
omsbon
Offended the Cubans, and now Russia must again deserve respect !!!
rugor
I recently visited Cuba - a paradise on earth. Just like on 25 years ago, back. Everything is so calm, peaceful.
matross
Coke and marijuana on every corner offer. In decent stores, you can buy goods only for convertible pesos (analogous to the Soviet VPT checks). After sunset in Havana, it is safe only in the center, by the way, dilapidated from disrepair. The best gift to the locals is soap shampoos from the hotel, they have a terrible shortage. Well, and stuff like that ...
Did you leave the hotel? Or rest on the system bar-beach-bar? Then for sure - everything is peaceful!
PS Rest in Cuba is normal, but the country is very poor, without the help of Russia it is very difficult for them. Fidel dies - problems begin ...
Did you leave the hotel? Or rest on the system bar-beach-bar? Then for sure - everything is peaceful!
PS Rest in Cuba is normal, but the country is very poor, without the help of Russia it is very difficult for them. Fidel dies - problems begin ...
NATO Secretary General missed the Russians
Anders Fogh Rasmussen made a number of very serious statements.
In Brussels, he condemned the actions of Vladimir Putin, aimed at the inclusion of the Crimea in the Russian Federation. “I condemn the announcement by President Putin of the inclusion of Crimea into the Russian Federation,” the Secretary General said. On behalf of NATO, they made a statement that the alliance does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia.
In his next public statement, the NATO secretary general said that Russia is behaving not at all as a partner of the North Atlantic Alliance: "Russia behaves as if it is not a partner, but an opponent of NATO."
Finally, Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced in Brussels that the Ukrainian events could accelerate the rapprochement of the candidate countries with NATO. “I see it in a strategic perspective,” he noted. When? .. It turns out that this perspective, in the words of one Russian publicist, “is near at door”.
Already at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales, everything will become clear. The Secretary General said: “We need to move forward and reflect the progress that has been made, at least in some of the candidate countries.” At the end of June, the NATO foreign ministers will consider issues of compliance of Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia with the conditions for joining the alliance.
Rasmussen did not even mention about the well-known “territorial dispute” of Georgia with Russia, because of which NATO by no means can accept this sunny land of wine-makers into their cohesive ranks that they do not accept unresolved territorial problems. Because of the Crimea, everything somehow changed quickly. History literally written every day in front of the whole world. By the way, this was noted by the NATO Secretary General.
According to him, which he said no longer in Brussels, but at the Brookings Institute (USA), events in Ukraine and the reunification of Crimea with Russia changed the world. What kind of changes are we talking about? It turns out that henceforth relations between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance can no longer be “business, as usual.” But every cloud has a silver lining: the Crimean crisis rallied the great ones: the USA and Europe.
We read between the lines: the West re-emerged a common enemy, as in the days of the Cold War. This enemy is the same Russian. The same Russians, whom Western commentators stubbornly continue to call "communists."
Moscow, according to Rasmussen, is engaged in “revisionism” and applies a policy of force, ignoring the legal international mechanisms that have been developed for decades. With sadness in his voice, the Secretary General said: “We thought that this behavior is history. It turns out not yet. "
Europe and the United States — that is, those who, apparently, uphold good and justice in the world through NATO institutions preaching peaceful bombardments and buffer zones (well, yes, “good with fists”) - now must rally. Consolidation of the West (obviously, in the face of the aggressor) NATO Secretary General considers the only way to ensure security.
Thus, A.F. Rasmussen made a startling historical discovery. It turns out that NATO missed some fact, namely that the unipolar world ceased to exist. Western political analysts and analysts have long been writing about this one article after another, but apparently Rasmussen does not read newspapers and has no time for news on the Internet. China is strong enough, India is growing, and Russia is deserving recognition as an active and influential foreign player. Rumor has it that by 2020, the United States will not dominate the planet at all.
The economic crisis, the constant criticism of President Obama by his own people, public mistrust of the authorities in Britain, France, Spain, Italy and other so-called “developed” countries, frequent vetoes in the UN Security Council imposed by Comrade Churkin, the recent slobber of Samantha Power’s hysteria, a Syrian issue with chemical weapons, the Crimean referendum and the overt fascization of Kiev, which Moscow doesn’t approve of and for which the dirty hands of Washington and Brussels are visible, as well as Victoria Nuland’s phone call to the EU - all this speaks not only of force uu Russian influence in geopolitics, but also that the consolidation of the West is (at least partly) a large and fragile myth. The West simply has no money for this consolidation: after all, the NATO budget is bursting at the seams!
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MIKHAN
Russia has such a job - to change and save the world. Now the next stage has begun ...
ZU-23
True, it is bad that Russia often forgets to change and save the world.
jjj
The more NATO expands, the more it disperses forces. The weaker it becomes.
Viktor Shmagin
It is time to honestly say that never Russia and NATO have been and will not be partners. Were opponents, but still remained.
alexneg
“Why do you hate Russians so much?”
- They have too many complexes!
- what?
- Anti-aircraft missile ...
- They have too many complexes!
- what?
- Anti-aircraft missile ...
Obama congratulated the liberators
“The United States and NATO do not seek to enter into conflict with Russia. We have been at NATO for 60 for years in helping people to become free, ”said Obama, speaking at the Belgian Palace of Fine Arts BOZAR.
He said something else: “NATO allies are never alone. Today, NATO planes are patrolling the skies over the Baltic, we have strengthened our presence in Poland, and we are ready to do more. "
“None of us knows what awaits the people of Ukraine in the near future. We believe in democracy, free elections, civil society, information without censorship, we believe in an open economy. We believe in human dignity and that all people are created equal, ”the American president said.
Orwell has long written satirically about this very equality: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." Bombs for Yugoslavia, protracted wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, accelerated democratization of Libya, fussing around Syria and Iran and the Arab Spring in general, creating EuroPRO, condemning a referendum in Crimea recognizing the independence of the self-proclaimed “Republic of Kosovo”, two Sudans and approving the Belovezhskaya agreement 1991 of the year - all of these are examples of the American-NATO faith in democracy and an open economy.
In human dignity, Mr. Obama, do not need to believe. You need to have it.
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asar
"Do you feel unfree?" Then NATO is coming to you! ”
polly
"We believe in the fact that there is life on Mars, we believe in green men ... Oh, what is it me?"
Sid.74
That's right, we believe in polite green men!
One hundred states against Russia
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing the referendum in Crimea as illegal. 100 states voted for the resolution, 11 voted against, 58 abstained.
The position of the Russian Federation on the “Resolution on Ukraine” was supported by: Armenia, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
The General Assembly recognized the referendum held by residents of the Crimea as null and void and considered that it could not serve as a basis for changing the status of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The General Assembly called on the international community not to recognize changes in the status of Crimea and Sevastopol and to refrain from any actions that could be interpreted as recognition of changes in this status.
The voting results prove the groundlessness of statements about the international isolation of Russia, said Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin. “Very many countries complained that they are under tremendous pressure from the Western powers to vote in support of this resolution,” he said.
“The result is quite good for us, we won a moral and political victory. Of course, there can be no talk of isolating Russia in this situation, ”the Permanent Representative noted.
It is very pleasant that Venezuela voted against the will of the majority: after all, the United States buys 15% oil from this country. The position, for example, of Sudan, is clear: this is a small revenge on America and the UN for splitting the country.
Political pressure in the UN has always been. In fact, this organization has long become something of a collection of dictators who call themselves carriers of democracy and guarantors of peace and freedom. Only the right of veto, which, fortunately, is available in the UN Security Council with Russia, sometimes makes it possible to save some part of the planet from annoying democratizers, who have the Nazi stamp of NATO on their forehead.
Comments from our readers:
vjhbc
That's good, you can immediately see with whom you can deal, and with whom it is not necessary. And in fact, half of these 100 states can at any time be democratized by the Americans. But no, pull little hands, morons.
avg
So far, many of those who voted “for” were habitually intimidated, but those who abstained have already decided to show “a fig in the pocket” to mattresses.
I agree with Churkin that this is our victory, and with each such victory the score during the voting will change in our favor.
I agree with Churkin that this is our victory, and with each such victory the score during the voting will change in our favor.
Pokemon Recognition
At the summit on nuclear security in the Netherlands B.H. Obama had to voice one truth, namely the fact that Russia would not give up the historical territory of Crimea.
Obama's confession sounded for the first time in several weeks, during which the entire West condemned Russia for its position on the Crimea.
Obama also confirmed the previously expressed intention not to get involved in a conflict with Russia over Ukraine.
Bloggers make fun of the US president and compare it with a Pokemon named Slopook.
Another fact is remarkable, which also should not slip away from the attention of people who know how to joke and think. Probably, Obama finally reached some article from numerous recent American publications about the imminent start of the Third World War, which he, the Nobel peacemaker B.H. Obama, will unleash by his absurd and aggressive behavior. That is why the US president spoke not at some place in Congress, but at a nuclear security summit ...
Comments from our readers:
W1950
Long as it came to him.
Salamander
With the spirit going.
jjj
Only Obama added that they would never legally recognize this. And on the RBC channel, an American video was shown, where Obama and judo are engaged, with a bear, with a bare torso, and in the field ... Of a type not worse than Putin.
Americans want to read Putin's mind
The other day, the Wall Street Journal talked about how the American special forces miscalculated the “invasion” of the Russians in Crimea. In a material dated 24 in March, journalists Adam Entous, Julian E. Barnes and Siobhan Gorman share with the reading public their thoughts on how the Kremlin managed to fool not only intelligence analysts, but also military satellites that monitored the Crimea. The authors conclude that the Russians probably learned to circumvent the western wiretapping.
The US military satellites spied on the accumulating Russian troops within the reach of the Crimea last month, write correspondents. But intelligence analysts were surprised by the events that followed: after all, they had not intercepted any messages that Russian leaders and military would exchange on the threshold of an “invasion”. As a result, representatives of the American intelligence came to a disappointing conclusion: Russian specialists may have advanced in technology and hid from the American wiretapping.
Now, to mend the information breach, special services and the US military are rushing to expand satellite coverage. Their goal is to intercept messages throughout the territory of Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic countries. US officials want to intercept everything that concerns the "intentions of Russian President Vladimir Putin." They want to know about Putin’s decisions even before he takes action.
The Obama administration is "very nervous," said an unnamed person close to the subject of discussion.
Curiously, some senior intelligence officials told Barack Obama three days before the “Crimean operation” that Russia could take the peninsula so quickly that Washington would know about it only when everything was behind.
The article reports some more details.
It turns out that expanding surveillance by increasing satellite coverage of Russia and Ukraine to the West is hampered by limited resources. The military cannot divert too many resources from Afghanistan, North Korea, Iran and other hot spots.
Assumptions about even more powerful programs of wiretapping and observation, about even more spy satellites are no more than an extensive way of doing the same work, which the US special agencies obviously do not cope with. Or maybe this excuse for a purely American "cut" the federal budget? .. In this case, the NSA can be advised to develop a special program for reading V.V. Putin's thoughts at a distance.
Well, in the meantime, congressmen and corporations are once again sawing billions, Russians may find themselves in Alaska. “Last minute”, yes, Mr. Obama?
Comments from our readers:
Sunjar
Extremely violent invasion, no free choice of Crimeans. Everyone voted at the AK-47 barrel, in turn Russian troops took turns (no, better fighting bears) took the relatives of the voters as hostages. But neither bears, nor the military, they did not see. There is absolutely no evidence. The US and the EU are so overwhelmed ... with fear that it is easier to admit that they missed the seizure of the Crimea by Russia, rather than acknowledge the will of the people. After all, everyone knows that people love when they are ruled by the Nazis, fascists, ordinary thugs.
Whatever one may say, they once again expose themselves to ridicule themselves. If they continue to follow the rhetoric of seizing the Crimea, then intelligence, diplomacy and influence in general, the US and the EU will melt before our eyes, like spring snow. Well, and if they admit that in Crimea, the people themselves have determined their fate, then, again, all their rhetoric about democracy and dem. values will be shaken. That made a choice. Because it is easier to recognize that your intelligence is not so good as we would like, rather than that your worldview and world order is chaos, ruin, crises of all kinds and forms.
Whatever one may say, they once again expose themselves to ridicule themselves. If they continue to follow the rhetoric of seizing the Crimea, then intelligence, diplomacy and influence in general, the US and the EU will melt before our eyes, like spring snow. Well, and if they admit that in Crimea, the people themselves have determined their fate, then, again, all their rhetoric about democracy and dem. values will be shaken. That made a choice. Because it is easier to recognize that your intelligence is not so good as we would like, rather than that your worldview and world order is chaos, ruin, crises of all kinds and forms.
demon184
Yes, at the same time you can ask for money from the budget for enhancing intelligence.
Yashka Gorobets
Steep American intelligence simple phones already do not consider the means of communication, only mobile phones and the Internet. Well, mail is generally from the realm of fantasy.
Back to Russia!
Almost a century and a half ago, Russia sold Alaska to the American government (options: I rented out, granted to management, gave away in vain, because I did not receive the promised money). The nineteenth-century US senators, who were vehemently criticizing the deal, called the future new state a block of ice, an icebox, a piece of frozen land, etc. But then 37 senators were in favor, and only two voted against. Today, the debate around Alaska has resumed with a new force. This was due to two events in the information sphere: March 21, a petition “Alaska back to Russia” appeared on the US e-government website, which was signed by an SV from Anchorage and collected more than thirty thousand signatures; 23 in March, Russia's permanent representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, gave the TV interview for Andy Marr's Show on BBC One, where the moderator quoted a well-known US Senator John McCain about the need to “follow Moldova” after the Crimean crisis, and Comrade Chizhov replied: “Tell McCain - let him follow Alaska. ”
The author of the mentioned petition substantiates his claim for the return of Alaska to Russia by the fact that Russian Siberian tribes crossed the isthmus (now the Bering Strait) even 16-10 thousands of years ago, and later began to settle on the Arctic coast. As for the Aleuts, they inhabited the Aleutian Archipelago. 21 August 1732 of the year the crew members of the ship “St. Gabriel "under the leadership of M. S. Gvozdev. The author of the petition calls on US citizens to vote for the separation of Alaska from the United States and its accession to Russia.
March 23, participating in the show "Andy Marr" on "BBC One", Russia's permanent representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov spoke about Alaska, which frightened the TV presenter, who had slightly changed in his face.
On the air we are talking about the reunification of the Crimea with Russia. Andy Marr quoted John McCain. He recently said that he needed to “follow Moldavia”, because the same thing could happen to her as to Ukraine (that is, the West should not miss Transnistria as he missed the Crimea).
Comrade Chizhov gave a brilliant answer to this: “Tell McCain - let him follow Alaska.” These words shocked the British presenter.
After these two events - the appearance of the petition and the response of Chizhov - journalists, scholars, conspiracyologists, members of online forums and just amateurs of chatting on the Internet enlivened. A whole wave of discussions has come up that was resolved by Alexander II in 1867.
However, according to the media, the petition “Alaska back to Russia” to the US e-government website was placed not by an American, but by a Russian, Sergei Voropayev, a resident of the glorious city of Volgograd.
Russia's permanent representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, just joked. But we know: in every joke there is a grain of truth ...
Comments from our readers:
La xnumx
In the Internet now Alaska is called not differently than Istrama.
Stasi
The Americans themselves once said openly that it would be nice to sell Alaska to Russians for about a trillion dollars. Russia is now a rich country, and the United States has a lot of debt. However, we can claim Alaska from the Americans to pay off debts to us. They give us Alaska and all the property there, and we write off to them the debts that they have to Russia. So I am sure Russia will not have to buy Alaska.
Revelations Mr. McFaul
23 March under the heading "Opinion" newspaper "New York Times" An article by M. McFaul “Opposition of Putin's Russia” was published. The Crimean decision of V. Putin, the ex-ambassador in it, called the decision "to annex the Crimea." This very decision, Mr. McFaul is sure, ended the era that came after the end of the Cold War (under Gorbachev and Reagan). Those former times are known for the fact that between Russia and the West there were disputes and “zigzags” in cooperation, but the main vector was clear: Russia was gradually integrated into the international order. But this is no more, the author believes.
The democratic community must recognize that Putin is a real autocrat autocrat, and begin an intellectual and regulatory struggle against his system.
But what to do with Ukraine? In this matter, Mr. McFaul advises to take "certain political steps." According to him, Ukraine should succeed as a democratic country with a market economy. At the same time, McFaul recommends that Moldova and Georgia be “urgently strengthened”. Ways to strengthen the following: a wider placement of military equipment there, more training, more integration of forces. In parallel, new efforts should be made to reduce the dependence of NATO countries on Russian energy resources.
Returning to Russia, McFaul says that "the current regime must be isolated." There is no membership of Russia in G8, there is no negotiation on Euro missile defense. Instead of all this, sanctions, including against relevant individuals and organizations (propagandists, state-owned enterprises, the Kremlin and associated bankers). But citizens and companies not affiliated with the government should, on the contrary, be supported. Including should be supported and those who seek to take out capital from Russia or emigrate, writes Mr. McFaul.
Putin’s nationalism, according to the ex-ambassador, is fueled mainly by oil and neo-Soviet anti-Americanism. However, Putin’s Russia has no real allies, McFaul says. And this state of affairs, in his opinion, should be preserved. In what way? And this is how: China should be kept at a distance from revisionist Russia, and at the same time contribute to the formation of independent states in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Amazing these March theses McFaul, add on my own. After all, the current American democracy is no good for samples, and Congress does not find a common language with the president. And yet, on behalf of the United States, McFaul acts as a kind of ecumenical teacher who has the right (maybe even “international”) not only to reveal the truth and falsehood in Russians, but also to give strategic advice to his skinny government, according to which "In Russia and some neighboring states, democracy.
And this McFaul, who offered his government an obvious strategy for the destruction of Russia, is still surprised at “anti-Americanism”! This kind Stanford uncle advises to fill Moldova and Georgia with military equipment and send instructors there. And in parallel to deal with Central Asia and promote the formation of independent states in the Caucasus!
Apparently, Mr. McFaul was angry with Russia after he worked as an ambassador in Moscow. Everything was taken into account in his scenario: the “fifth column”, the financial component, the withdrawal of Russian capital abroad, and well-known elements of the Cold War such as Russia's isolation and the arms race.
Things are easy: the US Congress needs to get on with Obama (which will not happen), and the United States to earn a new “moral authority” in the world (which cannot happen in the near future). Until then, everything will go according to the McFaul formula: "The United States is retreating on the world stage, and Russia is moving ahead."
Comments from our readers:
Dezinto
I remember watching the interview with this boltologist, when he just took over as the ambassador to Russia, an interview with Pozner on "First". How is he there with this ... his eyes sincerely, most sincerely explained that "niet, niet, you understand it, this Russian inhabitant lives by the standards of the Cold War." Nyet, we came purely kindergartens and you build a hospital. Radish you cardboard. And then there was an amazing act by all standards, when he took over the post of ambassador, having arrived in Moscow, FIRST his meeting was with the opposition !!! Okay, right? And then he went to our Foreign Ministry ... !!! Nyet, nyet, dear Russians, my friends are your friends !!! Yaya, Yaya, dude, come on, bye!
mountain
How did you start to talk a lot, America! For more, neither mind nor strength is not enough?
Afghan script for Ukraine
The US leadership is considering the possibility of increasing purchases of Ukrainian cannabis as part of the measures of financial support for the Ukrainian economy, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said in an interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday.
“We are currently studying the possibility of using industrial hemp seeds grown in Ukraine and in the United States,” he explained.
ITAR-TASS specifies that in the Ukrainian hemp there are no psychoactive substances causing narcotic intoxication. Raw materials are used for the production of oils, paints and plastics.
No psychoactive substances, you say? .. So once and the Americans said that with them Afghanistan would start to engage in agriculture. And now (according to the UN, by the way), opium raw materials from poppy are produced there almost 90% in the world. That is, Afghanistan has become an officially recognized opium monopolist. In recent years, hemp yields have also increased. In the language of marketers, this is called associated diversification of production.
However, as is known, Americans may soon leave Afghanistan. Therefore, they will need new "gardens". Ukraine, with its chernozems and a wonderful climate, is a expanse for cannabis production. Moreover, in the States is in full swing the legalization of marijuana. With the new democrats in Kiev, it will be possible to “stir up” the legal farming business.
No, these talk about plastic will not lead us!
Comments from our readers:
asar
And then the "well-wishers" from the West will bring out a new, Ukrainian variety of poppy, and there, you see, an idea will arise with the planting of coca, maybe it will take root! And bloom nezalezhnaya Ukraine under poppy, hemp and other "gardens"! And what is normal: the drug empire under the auspices of the United States in the center of Europe, a dream! Afghanistan is far away, transport links are intermittent, the mood among the population is unstable (they can shy away with a stinger, or even crumble personnel into cabbage, if by chance the Americans are offended!), But here - what a space ...
skeptic
No, the Americans are promoting a democratic distribution of production. Colombia - coca, Afghanistan - poppy, and for Ukraine, apparently, plan hemp. To begin with, it seems to be as industrial, well, and after complete detachment, that is, the destruction of all industry, is a switch to agro-aggression against Russia.
alexneg
The funny thing is that the United States decided to break with Russia in the fight against drugs. It seems that the USA is a hopeless “narik”.
* "And we are here, you know, we all play around with buns ..." - a phrase from the cartoon "Carlson who lives on the roof"
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